Staff Attorneys - For very busy and highly regarded global law firm in Washington DC.
The Staff Attorney will work on teams involved in document review and production projects.
Candidates must be and active/current member of the DC bar, and have at least 1 year of document review experience.
Duties:Review, analyze, categorize, and, as appropriate, annotate and/or redact documents and other informational materials in document review database systems, and/or hard-copy document collections. Assist in preparation of privilege and redaction logs and other similar tasks attendant to document review and production projects. As needed draft outlines and memoranda relating to the fact discovery issues and findings. Assist with the review quality control and review metrics reporting processes as needed. Work with the Firm’s litigation support staff and/or e-discovery vendors to help resolve any operational issues with the document collections, databases and review systems in use.
Position requirements:
At least one year of document review experience within or for an AMLAW 100 or 200 firm working on large litigation, investigation, or arbitration matters.
Current good standing with the DC Bar.
Excellent organizational, interpersonal skills, and a strong service orientation; excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong working knowledge of a discovery document review projects’ purpose and typical work-flows, and a thorough understanding of the rules and application of attorney-client and work product privilege.
Significant experience with on-line document review systems such as Relativity, Documatrix, FTI’s Ringtail, or other similar modern document review software tools.
Flexibility to work overtime as necessary.
Salary 80k plus paid OT and benefits.